Online Workshop Activities

Starting a meeting or after a break in a group where participants don't know each other or don't know much about each other

A Focused Conversation to begin to process traumatic situations for use with colleagues, friends and family, and how to respond to them productively. Often traumatic events become undiscussable and this enables persons to talk about them

This method helps groups to avoid awkward silence at the beginning of the session and instantly start a conversation. Ideal for large groups.

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 1 minute.

The sequential building of ideas without evaluation.

Using the Social Process Triangles created by the Institute of Cultural Affairs to identify a broad range of issues faced by a community, followed by the Consensus Workshop Method to see larger patterns of issues.

Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting

This is a method to unstick any workshop (a vision workshop or other workshop) where the group is stuck on a step of the process, and unclear about whether the result of the workshop is necessary.

In order to work without "living in the past", this imaginative activity aims to face and release grief/loss by memorializing former best practices/values from previous workplaces/environments.

Quick, easy and democratic way to visually prioritize choices/ideas

A virtual asynchronous start for an issues or problem solving workshop.